D&D General The Satanic Panic never really died?

[gyor]

As a Pagan I would love it if D&D converted more folks to Polytheism, it'd great.

Btw the lines qouted about not sacrificing your sons and daughters to the fire is ironic given how many sons and daughters were burnt at the stake in the name of Christ back in the day (most modern Christians have of course evovled far away from literally burning folks at the stake thankfully).

 

[Zardnaar]

As a Pagan I would love it if D&D converted more folks to Polytheism, it'd great.

Btw the lines qouted about not sacrificing your sons and daughters to the fire is ironic given how many sons and daughters were burnt at the stake in the name of Christ back in the day (most modern Christians have of course evovled far away from literally burning folks at the stake thankfully).

It probably has.

You don't see to many people wanting to play a cleric of Jesus or Jehovah. Next one I see will be a first.

Thor, Isis, Bast, Zeus though......

We have a cleric of Anubis/Anu Akma.

 

[Bawylie]

Funny thing about that. Morrus does not run a dictatorship. And he should not be held accountable for what free thinking adults say.

I am all for personal beliefs. But to actively enforce those beliefs and actually harmful personal beliefs on others is something I draw the line on. If her mother is coming from a good place good on her. But there is a better way of expressing it.

Yeah, I agree it’s not a dictatorship. Maybe I could’ve been clearer on that. This isn’t a torch and pitchfork situation.

But the dynamics are a special case compared to a posting from, for example, a rando like me. It’s just not the case that what I say carries the same weight as what the staff or owner says.

I’m not in any fashion saying they abuse that dynamic or take unfair advantage in debate or conversation.

 

[Xenonnonex]

Daughters free to tell her to sod off, mother just doesn't want to buy it.

If she has taken away the books that's different (unless the daughter is not an adult).

Parents telling their kids not to buy things is perfectly fine.
Patents telling their kids if you buy the thing you will end up in Hell is definitely not okay. And if snowballed is grounds for disowning.

 

[Gangrel44]

The full-blown Panic subsided, but the underlying Satanic Anxiety is still untreated.

And the people responsible for said anxiety were never held to account for their slander....

 

[Xenonnonex]

Yeah, I agree it’s not a dictatorship. Maybe I could’ve been clearer on that. This isn’t a torch and pitchfork situation.

But the dynamics are a special case compared to a posting from, for example, a rando like me. It’s just not the case that what I say carries the same weight as what the staff or owner says.

I’m not in any fashion saying they abuse that dynamic or take unfair advantage in debate or conversation.

Not really. No. You are ascribing something where there is not. In any case. Again. Morrus should not be held accountable for what free thinking adults say.

 

[Garthanos]

I run a high school D&D club in a conservative, mid-western, small town. The fact that I can run that club with pretty much unqualified support from the school board and administration speaks volumes about how far we have come.

The Christians I have talked to locally who have concerns about young people playing D&D do not view playing D&D as occult practice, but something that opens the door to occult practice. I have actually had very polite and productive discussions on the topic with a couple of local pastors.

My daughter plays a D&D club after school at her local high school ... its a capital city and has some of the highest education ratings in the state etc etc. So its not as definite as your small town example.

Of course none of the pastors I have talked to think anything of the sort. Now the idea that the internet is dangerous that one came up and in ways that might have been more exaggerated and old fashioned but altogether more reasonable than the silliness featured in this discussion.

 

[Zardnaar]

Parents telling their kids not to buy things is perfectly fine.
Patents telling their kids if you buy the thing you will end up in Hell is definitely not okay. And if snowballed is grounds for disowning.

Hard to say, it's not something I agree with but generally believe parents should be able to raise their kids in whatever religion they like (or none) with the exception of those that actual harm (starving kids etc).

 

[Bawylie]

Not really. No. You are ascribing something where there is not. In any case. Again. Morrus should not be held accountable for what free thinking adults say.

“Does he hold himself accountable for the content on his site?” I think is the more relevant question.

And another: “Does his status in this community, and the broader RPG community, have any influence on the behavior of others on this board?”

I think it does; and that’s a good thing. He’s a good person. But maybe that situation comes with a different, higher standard, too.

 

[Bardic Dave]

Most modern Christians have of course evovled far away from literally burning folks at the stake thankfully.

Oh, most of them have evolved past that? So you're saying I only need to worry about some of of those friendly looking church goers down the street literally burning me at the stake for my atheism? Phew! What a tremendous relief this is to learn!